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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google data watch: Enough with the overanalysis — ComScore's latest search data showing Google queries declined has caused concern and a good bit of overanalysis. But everyone needs to take a deep breath when it comes to analyzing every little Google twitch.
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comScore Releases February 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. February 2008 saw Americans conduct nearly 10 billion core searches …
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects — Screen snapshot: This now-defunct site is reportedly where an FBI undercover agent posted hyperlinks purporting to be illegal videos. Clicking the links brought a raid from the Feds. — The FBI has recently adopted …
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Addy Dugdale / Gizmodo:
HTC Calls Android Phone Dream, Feels Like One Already — More details of HTC's Google phone are emerging, it seems. The handset is to be called “Dream”, will be touchscreen and have a large QWERTY keypad. So, what else do we know? And, more importantly, when is it coming out?
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Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
HTC names Google phone, ‘Dream’ — San Francisco - The mobile phone High Tech Computer (HTC) has been developing to run on the Android software from Google will be called “Dream,” have a large touchscreen and full QWERTY keypad, a person close to the situation said Thursday.
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Tech Trader Daily, InformationWeek Weblog, Mobility Site, Engadget Mobile, Inquirer and InfoWorld
Louise Story / New York Times:
A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers' Clicks — AFTER reading about how Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use it for targeted advertising, one New York assemblyman said there ought to be a law.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:NY Legislator Looks To Outlaw Behavioral Targeted Ads Without Opt-In
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being a F**king Jackass — A decade ago, Wired was my favorite magazine. Today, they print mind-numbing tripe like Leander Kahney's 3,500-word cover story, “How Apple Got Everything Right by Doing Everything Wrong”.
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Gadget Lab, iLounge, Wired News, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Guardian Unlimited, Labnotes, Blogcosm, Connecting the Dots, CrunchGear and MacDailyNews
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Diigo 3.0: The all-powerful personal and social bookmarking service — I was impressed by the preview I got in September of the bookmarking and Web annotation tool Diigo 3.0. It's taken the company until this morning to release this version to the public. In the interim the team has added features and tweaked the design.
Ken Dulaney / Gartner:
Gartner Changes Its Enterprise iPhone Recommendations — The iPhone will soon be tailored for enterprises. Gartner recommends “appliance-level” support status once firmware 2.0 and improvements are released. iPhone will become a popular tool alongside BlackBerry and Microsoft devices.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Gartner flips its iPhone bozo bit, gives IT the green light
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown Decodes TechCrunch's Dream Team Memo (So You Don't Have To) — So what prompted TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington to pen a pugnacious piece on how blogs should not be raising so much venture capital and instead roll themselves into a “Dream Team,” with the unusual title of “More Bloggers Raising Money.
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Adobe realizes SDK not enough for Flash on iPhone — Adobe has admitted it can't bring Flash to the iPhone just because it thinks that would be a neat idea. — Comments made Tuesday by Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen were widely interpreted this morning as confirmation that Adobe and Apple …
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Inquirer, Digital Trends, I4U News, Engadget Mobile, Between the Lines, Apple 2.0, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News.com, Compiler and AppleInsider
Knowledge@Wharton:
The Experts vs. the Amateurs: A Tug of War over the Future of Media — A tug of war over the future of media may be brewing between so-called user-generated content — including amateurs who produce blogs, video and audio for public consumption — and professional journalists …
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Update allows Time Machine backups on AirPort Extreme — In the aftermath of Wednesday's release of updates to Apple's AirPort Extreme wireless base stations and Time Machine on Wednesday, users now have the ability to use disks attached to the AirPort Extreme as a Time Machine-compatible backup drive.
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Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:Is your Airport Extreme suddenly Time Machine-happy?
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Infinite Loop, Zero Day, MacFixIt, Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog, The Apple Core, Gizmodo, Engadget and jkOnTheRun
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
German Court Decision Hands Big Win to File-Sharers — The Federal Constitutional Court in Germany has ruled that the identities of file-sharers must remain private and can longer be revealed to media companies who accuse them of copyright infringement. In future, only those accused …
Ina Fried / Crave: The gadget blog:
Are Apple ads hurting Microsoft's brand? — A new ranking of global brands shows Microsoft's reputation sinking in recent years. Among the possible factors: Apple's “I'm a Mac” ads. — Microsoft lands at No. 59 in the rankings for 2007, down from No. 11 in 2004, according to the survey from CoreBrand released Wednesday.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL: Many Senior Managers Were Against Bebo Buy — Many senior AOL (TWX) managers did not want to buy social-networking site Bebo, sources tell us. Among the concerns, they did not (and do not) believe Bebo will hit the revenue and profit targets used to justify the $850 million purchase price.
